The National Eligibility and Entrance Test for Postgraduates (NEET-PG) will be held on September 11, a day before the NEET UG exam, Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya announced on Tuesday. “We have decided to conduct NEET Postgraduate exam on 11th September 2021,” tweeted Union Minister Mansukh Mandaviya.
On Monday, the Union Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan announced that the NEET (UG) 2021 entrance exam will be held across India on September 12, with COVID guidelines in place.
The NEET PG was scheduled to take place in April this year but was deferred due to the brutal second wave of COVID-19. The Narendra Modi government had decided in April that exams will not be held before August 31, a move that allowed final-year MBBS students and interns to focus on clinical tasks. The final year MBBS students were called to help the nation to fight the deadly second COVID-19 wave.
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The government will issue new admit cards for students as the ones published in April will be considered invalid.
For the NEET PG entrance examination, a total of 174,886 candidates have registered.
The applications to apply for the NEET PG exam closed on March 15.
The exam will be held at 255 exam centres across the nation and the paper will have 200 multiple choice questions based on subjects in the MBBS curriculum. The exam will be conducted for admission of 12,690 students in Master of Surgery (MS) course, 24,306 Doctor of Medicine (MD) course and 922 PG Diploma seats in 6,102 government, private, deemed/central universities, a report said.
The question paper will be divided into three parts: Pre-Clinical, Para-Clinical, and Clinical.
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The result of NEET PG will be announced online, based on which the National Board of Examination (NBE) will release a merit list mentioning the All India Rank for 50% All India Quota candidates.
The Medical Counselling Committee (MCC) will conduct counseling for 50% AIQ, Deemed/Central Universities, ESIC/AFMS institutes based on the rank in the PG examinations. For the remaining 50% state quota seats and private college seats, the seats will be allotted by the respective state counselling authority.
